For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work.

Our nation is too different, too diverse to say that what works in Massachusetts is somehow going to be grabbed by the federal government, usurping the power of states and imposing a one-size-fits-all plan on the nation. That will not work.

Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.